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President Barack Obama greets Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., as Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., left, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, right, watch, after Obama arrived at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco.  (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP) How to win doctors and influence prescriptions for drug sales As a sales representative for a major drug company, Matt Webb was expected to entertain doctors often with, for example, seats to sporting events and dinners at five-star restaurants. NPR NATO chief warns against new Wikileaks release NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that the lives of soldiers and civilians could be endangered if the whistle-blowing Wikileaks website releases more secret military documents. Sydney Morning Herald   Obama struggles to win women back Despite 22 months of gender-specific policy moves, President Barack Obama has steadily lost ground with women, the Democratic Party’s biggest constituency. Politico Obama: Women are half the workforce CNN The haves, the have-nots and the dreamless dead In 2007, when the world was on the brink of financial crisis, U.S. income inequality hit its highest mark since 1928, just before the Great Depression. Reuters Income inequality linked to Senate standoffs Miller-McCune Big public works projects a hard sell From New Jersey to Hawaii, infrastructure projects are languishing on the drawing board, awaiting the right mix of creative financing, political arm-twisting and timing to move forward. It could be a long wait. MSNBC NJ rail tunnel needs tighter oversight Bloomberg   NATION Clinton mislaid nuclear launch code According to a former top military official, former President Bill Clinton mislaid the plastic card with the nuclear launch codes that in military and White House parlance is called “the biscuit." The Independent Expect another winter of extremes Federal forecasters called for another winter of extremes, with the Pacific Northwest expecting a wetter and colder season than average and the South and Southeast yearning for rain. CNN POLITICS Do expensive campaign ads matter? Candidates and interest groups are expected to spend at least $50 million in Nevada‘s 2010 federal election campaigns, mostly on advertising, but it’s unclear how much that will influence the state’s voters. Lexington Herald-Leader Election Day is already over for millions of early voters Republicans clearly are turning out more early voters than two years ago, but clues about 2010 early voting patterns still give Democrats an edge in a number of states and big counties. Seattle Times Special section: Early voting information center EarlyVoting.net EDUCATION NYC spat over publishing teacher rankings reaches brief truce The teachers union in New York City has won some time in its battle against the school district’s plan to give to reporters “value added” evaluation data that ranks teachers against their peers. Christian Science Monitor Character education found to fall short in federal study Character education has grown in popularity, but the largest federal study of schoolwide programs to date has found that they don’t produce any improvements in student behavior or academic performance. Education Week RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY Past inspires modern solutions for historic black church Worry is nothing new for the congregation at First African Baptist Church, which is well into its third century and one of the oldest black congregations in the United States. CNN Sikhs urge Obama to visit Golden Temple on India trip Sikh groups have urged President Barack Obama not to avoid visiting the Golden Temple in Amritsar during his India trip, amid reports he is now unlikely to go there. BBC Why Obama won’t visit Amritsar YouTube ENVIRONMENT 10 tips to green your Halloween On Halloween many will be donning scary costumes, handing out sweets and partaking in other Halloween activities. A number of websites are offering advice on how to “green your Halloween.” The Independent Deciduous trees have decidedly beneficial impact on air pollution New research by government-backed scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that deciduous vegetation absorbs one-third more air pollution than previously believed. Denver Post HEALTH Diabetes to double or triple in US by 2050 Up to a third of U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 if Americans continue to gain weight and avoid exercise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected. Reuters Low-dose aspirin cuts colon cancer risk The use of long-term low-dose aspirin reduced both the incidence and the mortality associated with colorectal cancer, a 20-year follow-up of randomized trials showed. MedPage Today Aspirin may reduce risk of colon cancer Insidermedicine   Columns And Op-Ed The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more. Column (Paul Froese and Christopher Bader): Which god blesses America? Huffington Post Editorial: O’Donnell logic flawed Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial: Still waiting for the grown-up talk on health care reform St. Louis Post-Dispatch Column (Bob Ray Sanders): Admitting mistakes and apologizing doesn’t diminish America McClatchy Newspapers Column (David Horsey): ‘Real Americans’ are not tea party priority Seattle Post-Intelligencer Column (André Picard): Do ‘medical miracles’ really exist? Globeandmail.com Video (Jon Groat): What you missed: the midterm elections in 7 minutes Newsweek Column (Amy Goodman): When banks are robbers Denver Post   Site edited by: Jeff Bromberg, Selena Williams, Tanya Flowers, Elizabeth Quinn, John Allen, Adrian Smith, Charles Weiss, John Harvell and Paul Wertheim.   GOOD NEWS Collard greens and carrots may ward off breast cancer Eating lots of carrots and cruciferous vegetables could reduce breast cancer risk, particularly an aggressive form common among African-American women, suggests a new study. Reuters Pittsburgh-area food pantry expands With the holiday season just around the corner, the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry is both expanding and undergoing some changes. KDKA Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry opens new location Post-Gazette WORLD French police dislodge protesters as key vote looms French police dislodged a blockade at Paris‘ main oil depot as they sought to quash unrest ahead of a vote on the national pension system that has sparked the county’s largest protests in decades. NPR French workers to hold 2 more national days of action BBC Scores dead in suspected cholera outbreak in Haiti Nearly 140 people have died in central Haiti in an outbreak of severe diarrhea that Haitian health officials suspect is cholera, the government and U.N. officials said. Reuters Cholera outbreak in Haiti YouTube Typhoon triggers rockslides in Taiwan Typhoon Megi has brought heavy rains to northeastern Taiwan, triggering massive rockslides on a coastal highway that have trapped as many as 400 travelers. Atlanta Journal-Constitution BUSINESS G-20 nations split over Geithner’s trade plan as talks near end The G-20 conclude talks with the U.S. running into resistance as it pushes targets for current account imbalances as a new way of prodding China and other Asian nations to let their currencies rise. Bloomberg AIG’s AIA Group said to raise $17.8B in AIA Hong Kong IPO AIG, Inc. raised about 17.8 billion selling shares in its main Asian unit, AIA Group Ltd., in the largest initial public offering in Hong Kong, a person with knowledge of the IPO said. BusinessWeek SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NASA: Moon’s water is useful resource A rocket and a probe smashed into a lunar crater, kicking up large amounts of rock and dust, revealing chemical compounds and more water than could have imagined. BBC Moon’s got water, other goodies too Christian Science Monitor Is Big Brother on the slopes or a Facebook app? They’re installing more scanners on mountain slopes to track skiers and snowboarders. Some skiers and privacy advocates object. Denver Post Sloth has rib-cage bones in its neck Unlike nearly every mammal that has seven vertebrae in its neck, sloths stand out as oddballs with up to 10. Now it turns out, what seem like extra neck vertebrae actually come from the rib cage. LiveScience SPORTS History shows Rangers’ Cliff Lee no lock to close out ALCS History is full of teams who thought they had the Yankees stuffed and ready to mount in their dens, only to turn on the television one night and find the World Series coming live from the Bronx. Courier-Post Previewing ALCS game 6 MLB.com Halladay comes through on 1 leg; Phillies’ potent offense still missing Halladay strained his right groin in the second inning of an elimination game for the Phillies. On one good leg, he made it through six innings and the Phillies won the game against the Giants 4-2. Sports Illustrated LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT Ditch computers, TVs for smart phones More and more smart phone users are leaving their desktops, laptops and even their TVs, and looking to mobile devices to satisfy all their basic technological needs. CNN And the jukebox sailed on It was a gray, shadowless and drizzly evening, as “Cap‘n” Steve Jones barreled into the CBS Radio building in Culver City wearing a grimy sailor’s cap. LA Weekly   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Virus link to chronic fatigue gives hope to sufferers seeking a cure Scientists have found further links between a virus and chronic fatigue syndrome, a study says. 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